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On Friday I drove to Santa Monica to stand in line for the grand opening of the new Shrine of Jobs, it was amazing. Not the store—I figured the reason there were about 3000 people in queue was the Less Than Jake show, but no, they were all Maclots. Amazing. I was completely surrounded by the RDF. Those people waited for three hours to get… a t-shirt. At least I got one, or something, ha. I should sell it on eBay. Anyway, I had a nice time reading my book in the sun while I was waiting, and the show was great. I was going to go back to KSCR afterwards to hang out for the last 15 min of WWP, but there was a huge jam on the 10 and I got back around 10:30.

Oh, ugh. I narrowly avoided dying while driving towards the 10 in Santa Monica. Well, actually, it probably would have been the passenger in the other car to die, but anyway. Here:

Chris: i went through an intersection on a yellow. a big SUV was trying to turn left opposing me. i guess he thought i was going to stop or something… but i was doing ~40, too fast and close to stop. so, his passenger side door careening towards my windshield, i handbraked, braked, and twisted the wheel left, resulting in my front wheels locking (or so it felt—i thought ABS prevented this?) and my rear wheels sliding around to my right, narrowly avoiding collision. stalled as i came to a stop. then the light turned red, and i restarted, and drove off. kinda scary. and now my clutch feels like a wet rag.

Jerk SUV. Might want to watch out for that oncoming traffic thing before turning next time.

So last night I went rock climbing at a state park in Calabassas. It was a blast. Full moon, so it wasn’t so dark. I forgot how fun climbing is. I want to go again… well, after I heal from this time. The park was beautiful. Oh! You could see Mars really well, because it’s close. It looked like a red star.

I wanted to go play marimba today, but my forearms are hurting from climbing, so I’ll have to wait a little while. It’s weird because usually my extensor tendons/muscles are the ones that hurt, but right now it’s the flexors, and it’s a completely different kind of wrist pain. #